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BOSTON—Sun, wind and fire: Glare in the eyes, gusts playing havoc with innocent fly balls, and a smoking torrid Blue Jays offence.

Scorched earth. That’s what Toronto left behind after a weekend in Beantown.

Thirty-one runs over three days, 13-5 the outcome on Sunday, another shiv to the gut for the cerise hosers and their increasingly morose fans — though the suspicion here is that those two bozos who ran on the field late in the game may have been Jays boosters from north of the border.

Otherwise, the elements all came together — pop-ups lost in the sunlight, balls booted in the shade, wind-swirling bloopers that fell fortuitously for the visitors, rat-a-tat offence right through the order, especially at the bottom — on the closing afternoon of a three-game sweep by Toronto over the convulsing Red Sox.

“We’re some kind of hot right now,” manager John Gibbons understated.

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Win streak ratcheted to 11, equalling the franchise record for most consecutive victories, which the Jays have done now four times, most recently July 11-23, 2013. But this roll feels so fundamentally different.

“I don’t necessary remember that one,” said Gibbons. “I think that one just got us back to .500. This one got us over.”

Four games over, as the team departed for New York and a date with the Mets.

The feel-good vibes around this remarkably self-confident team took some of the unease off news, confirmed post-game, that young Aaron Sanchez will miss at least another start with what’s now been described as left shoulder inflammation — specifically a lat strain. Last week, when the 22-year-old missed his turn in the rotation, it was “all-over soreness.”

Sanchez was put on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 6, and could conceivably be back June 21 against Baltimore at home. Sunday night he was Dunedin-bound for rest ’n’ rehab, whatever that strapping body needs to return to pitching sturdiness, in this Sanchez’ first MLB season as a starter.

“It’s just the right move, smart move, get rid of it,” said Gibbons. “He’ll go down to Florida like everybody else. That’s protocol around here.”

Scott Copeland will be recalled from Buffalo Monday.

(Meanwhile, as an aside, the recovering Devon Travis is headed to Double-A New Hampshire following his get-well stint in Dunedin.)

As for the hale Jays, they managed those 31 runs without any homers from their three big boppers: Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson and Edwin Encarnacion. On Sunday, it was light-hitting Ryan Goins who went yard, racking up a career-high five RBIs on the afternoon.

“The big one today was Goins,” said Gibbons. “He doesn’t hit too many of ’em.”

The defensively illustrious second baseman reeled off half a dozen hits on the weekend, in fact.

“The one word to describe it is fun,” grinned Goins, as he struggled to put on his dress shirt afterwards without undoing the buttons — a real boy-thing. “One word to describe this series.”

Memorable, for him.

“Honestly, I think everybody is coming in every day knowing we’re going to win,” said Goins, of the current Jays zeitgeist. “Put that with having the best one-through-six (hitters) probably in the whole league, it makes it easy being seven-eight-nine. Just trying to have good at-bats and turn the lineup back over to the big boys.”

Such was the hotness, however, of the usually low-wattage Goins — great glove, can’t hit much — that Boston manager John Farrell summoned lefty Tommy Layne from the ’pen to deal with him in the seventh. Goins stroked a double that scored Chris Colabello and Russell Martin, then took third on fielding error by Rusney Castillo — dropped the ball — and was brought home by Jose Reyes’ double, final outburst by the Jays.

Goins’ home run came in the fourth inning, part and parcel of that bat-around 6-0 Toronto explosion off Boston starter Eduardo Rodriguez, brightest light in the Boston constellation right now. The rookie (sadly, he wants to be known as E-Rod) entered Sunday’s game with a minuscule 0.44 ERA, leaving it battered after 4.2 innings, nine runs on eight hits. The Goins jack — crushed it, broken bat — came on a 2-1 pitch and landed in the Blue Jay bullpen.

Did he think it was gone? “I never think it’s gone.”

A hugely eventful inning, that fourth, and maybe Rodriguez — who lasted just two more hitters, nine runs on eight hits — deserved better. A brace of pop-ups induced comical disaster. A lazy pop from Donaldson that dropped for a single started the barrage of hits. Bautista drove a groundball that caromed off the wall barrier. Encarnacion’s single through centre scored Donaldson, still nobody out. Encarnacion then, crucially, executed a dandy take-out slide at second to disrupt a double-play possibility as Colabello landed safe at first on the force-out.

Farrell argued forcibly that Encarnacion had veered off the bag deliberately to upend Xander Bogaerts, but he lost the argument.

Later that same inning, Dustin Pedroia, battling the sun, dropped a pop-up in short right, and the hits/runs just kept on coming, Jays also benefitting from a wild pitch.

Pretty much more of the same next inning, Toronto scoring a quartet, mostly notably the comedy of errors that made it 7-0 when a towering pop-up from Colabello fell between four converging Boston fielders. E-Rod had departed, replaced by knuckleballer Steve Wright, who’s first offering was smashed over the left field wall by Danny Valencia, his second home run this year.

Toronto starter Marco Estrada handed back half of the scoring loot to Bosox in the fifth, as the home-side racked up five runs on four hits, and this time it was Bautista who lost one in the sun, which scored Castillo (he’d walked) to put the home squad on the board. David Ortiz lashed his ninth homer of the season.

Kevin Pillar, who’d earlier stepped on Valencia’s toe when the two crossed paths in the outfield in (vain) pursuit of long fly ball that turned into a triple, atoned with a spectacular catch in the same vicinity, scrambling for miles on a sixth-inning leadoff parabola by Alejandro De Aza, diving, tumbling on his side, rolling over, but bouncing up with the ball in his glove.

“He came in after the inning and everybody’s shaking his hand,” said Gibbons. “You really take it for granted how well he’s playing out there. It’s almost commonplace. You forget to go over and say nice catch because he does it so often. He’s got tremendous instincts, he jumps off the ball as good any anyone you’ll ever see. And he’s fearless.”

Pillar liked the sound of that.

“Yeah, I think fearless. And I think . . . preparation. The biggest thing for me is just trying to read the bat through the zone and trying to anticipate where they’re going to go.”

On the other side of the ledger, Pillar, who bats eighth, had two hits and scored a run.

“When we’re on a roll like this, and one through nine are doing their job, it takes the pressure off the middle of the order to have the big hit or the big home run.

“We’re just on a streak right now where everything’s kind of going right for us. We’re playing good baseball and we’re being rewarded for it.’’

Freaky factoid footnote: Estrada became the first Toronto starter this season to allow five runs and earn a win.

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Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an earlier published article to correct that this is the fourth 11-game win streak in Jays franchise history

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